Improved device for holding harness-reins



- E. G. MAGKINNEY.

Rein-Holder.

Patented Mar. 18, 1862.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OF PEEKSKILL, N EVV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JAMES H. POWELL.

IMPROVED DEVICE FOR HOLDING HARNESS-REINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,720, dated March 18,1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE C. MACKINNEY, of Peekskill, in the county ofWVestch ester and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedImplement or Device for Holding Harness-Reins when a Person Alights froma Vehicle; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a face view of my invention; Fig. 2,a section of the same,taken in the line a" as, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

The objectof this invention is to obtain a simple and efficient devicewhich may be attached to the dash-board or other convenient part of avehicle to hold the reins when the occupant or driver alights.

The invention consists in the employment or use of a clamp operated by ascrew connected with a stationary plate, as hereinafter shown anddescribed.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a circular plate, which may be constructed of metalatleast, that would be the preferable material. This plate Ais provided atits center with a hole 0,, having a screw-thread cut in it to receive ascrew B, which has a circular plate 0, which may be also of metal,attached to its outer end. The plate does not require to be as large in.diameter as A, but it should be of sufficient size to cover the lines orreins (shown in red) when passing down between itand the plateA. Theplate 0 should haveathumb-piece D attached to it for the convenience ofturning said plate; or the plate 0 may be milled or serrated at its edgefor the same purpose.

The plateA may be attached by any proper means to the inner side of thedash-board of the vehicle, (that probable would be themost desirableplace,) and the driver previous to alighting places the lines or reinsbetween the plates A and C, the latter being turned outward from theplateA sufficiently to admit of the lines or reins being so placed. Theplate 0 is then turned 'so that the screw B may draw the plate 0 forwardto clamp or hold the reins.

The screwB may have a quick thread, so as to admit of the plate 0 beingadjusted by a quite limited turn or movement, thereby facilitating itsadjustment.

This device may be constructed at a quite moderate cost, and it may bemade in a neat manner, so as to be ornamental-rather so than otherwise.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent as an improved article of manufacture, is- I Arein-holder formed of the stationary plate A and an adjustable plate 0,actuated through the medium of the screw B, as herein shown anddescribed.

EUGENE C. MACKINNEY.

WVitnesses:

THOMAS A. WHITNEY, JOHN SMITH.

